Hat-holder.



A PATENTED FEB. 25, 1908. M. E. OROUSE & J. E. ROBERTS.

HAT HOLDER.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 6, 1907.

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WITNESSES A TTOHNEYS PATENTED FEB. 25; 1908. M, B. GROU SB & J. E. ROBERTS.

HAT HOLDER.

APPLICATION FILED MAY a. 1907.

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W/ TNE SSE S ATTORNEYS No. 880,364. PATENTED FEB. 25, 1908. M. E. GROUSB & J. E. ROBERTS.

HAT HOLDER.

APPLICATION FILED mu 6. 1907.

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W/ T/VE SSE 8 Tm: NORRIS Pzrsks co., WASHINGTON, n. c.

UNITED sTATEs PATENT oEEIoE.

MINNIE E. CROUSE, OF LAWRENCE, MASSACHUSETTS, AND J. EDWARDS ROBERTS, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.; SAID ROBERTS ASSIGNOR TO SAID OROUS'E.

HAT-HOLDER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Feb. 25, 1908.

To all whom it may concerns Be it known that we, MINNIE E. ORoUsE and J. EDwARDs ROBERTS, citizens of the United States, and residents, respectively, of Lawrence, in the county of Essex and State of Massachusetts, and of the city of New York, borough of Manhattan, in the county and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Hat-Holders, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

The purpose of the invention is to provide a simple, durable and economic device especially adapted to hold a hat, bonnet or other article of head-wear in position to be trimmed or lined, and to so construct the device that it can be quickly and conveniently attached for sustaining engagement with any size hat-crown, interiorly or exteriorly, and universally adjusted to bring the hat to any position required by the operator.

A further purpose of the invention is to so construct the device that when the hat is held thereby the sustaining members will not injure the material of the crown. nor interfere with the progress of the work in hand, enabling the lining to be stitched to place and practically rendering all parts of the exterior of the crown readily accessible.

A further purpose of the invention is to provide not only for the necessary lateral adjustment of the sustaining arms or members, but also to provide means for the bodily vertical adjustment of all of said members.

The invention consists in the novel construction and combination of the several parts, as will be hereinafter fullyset forth and pointed out in the claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings forming a part of this specification, in which similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 is a sectional side elevation of the improved device showing the sustaining arms in positive lines in position for engagement with the exterior of a crown, and in dotted lines in position for engagement with the interior thereof; Fig. 1 also showing a sectional view of a portion of a support for the device; Fig. 2 is a plan view of the upper portion of the device or that portion at which the sustaining arms are located, the arms being shown broken away; Fig. 3 ,is a sectional view of a cap attached to a sustaining arm and especially used when the arms are brought in engagement with the interior of the crown of a hat; Fig. 4 is a perspective view of a yielding cap also adapted to the end of a sustaining arm but being particularly adapted for engagement with the outer face of the crown of a hat Fig. 5 is a sectional side elevation of the major portion of a slightly modified form of the device; Fig. 6 is a vertical section drawn on an enlarged scale and taken practically on the line 66 of Fig. 5; Fig. 7 is a horizontal section taken substantially on the line 77 of Fig. 5 and Fig. 8 is a perspective view of the holder and a practically universally adjustable mount therefor.

. In the construction shown in Figs. 1 and 2, the main features of the invention consist as follows: A sleeve 10 is provided and from the upper portion of this sleeve 10 pairsof ears or lugs 11 are laterally projected. Any desired number of pairs of lugs may be employed, but by preference three pairs are used, as is shown inFig. 2. The flattened or disk-like end 12 of a sustaining arm 13 is located between the lugs or ears 1] of each pair. The sustaining arms are adapted for vertical movement and are pivotally held in position by bolts 14 that pass loosely through the disk members 12, but are screwed into one or both of the ears or lugs 11 of a pair, so that after the sustaining arm 13 has been adjusted it can be held in adjusted position by simply tightening up the bolt 14 that passes through it.

The sustaining arms 13 are curved and when the arms 13 are to be engaged with the exterior of a hat-crown their curvature is upward and inward, as is shown in positive lines in Fig. 1. When the said sustaining arms 13, however, are to be brought in engaging and sustaining position with the inner surface of the crown of the hat they are made to cross one another, as is shown in' "with eachother.

ical, .as is best shown in Fig. 7, for a purpose in against the crown of the hat.

he body portion of the device justde scribed is supported bymeans of a rod 20 which constitutes a standard, and thesaid rod 20 is loosely passed up through the bodysleeve 10 above referred to, and the lower end :of the rod or standard 20. is sometimes made to enter the upper socket member 21 of..a clamp 22 that is adapted to be attached to a table 23 or other formof support, and to be secured thereto by'means .of the customary set screw 24 or the equivalent of the same. In the construction shown in Fig. 5, which is. .a slightly modified construction, a bodysleeve 25 is provided, whichis passed down through and beyond a bracket 26 which .may be a fixture on atable 27 or the like and is held in adjusted position by means of a set screw28, and .it may be here remarked that a set screw'28 is provided in the construction shown :in Fig. 1, which set screw iszpassed through the socket-2110f the clamp .22..and engaged with the rod or standard 2O. A head29 is formed at the .upper end of the tubular sleeve'25 just 'described,-and the said head 29 is of circular formation and is flat at .the top. A rod 30, which is an adjusting rod, is passed down through the tubular sleeve 25, and the said'rod 30 is provided also with a :head 31 at its upper end, the under face'of which head is flat, and the head 31 of the rod '30 is circular or of the same forma tion=as the head 29 of the tubular sleeve 25 and is of practically the same dimensions.

Two plates 32 and 33, are located between the two heads 29 and 31, and these plates 32 and 33 are provided with off-sets 34 from their marginal portions, .preferably three in numberpand the ofi-sets 34 of the two plates 32 and 33 are in vertical alinement when the said two plates are properly adjusted. Each said recesses are produced in the off-set :por-

tions 34 of the said plates, so that when the plates 32 and 33 are in proper position corresponding recesses will be brought in registry These recesses 35 are conto be hereinafter described.

The, plates 32 and 33areprevented from turning on the rod 30 by flattening one side ble.

of the saidrod at a point beneath its head, as is shown at 30 in Flg. 7, and providing a correspondingly flattened wall for the opening in the plates 32 and 33 with respect to the said rod. In the construction shown in Fig. 5, the sustaining arms 37 have the same ace tion as has been described relatively to the construction shown in Fig. 1, but the sustainign arms 37 are of slightly different formation.

Their body portions, however,are given the same curvature as in the construction shown in Fig. 1, but at their lower ends foot sections-36 are produced, which are at an angle, usually a right angle, to their body sections,

and these-foot sections36 are conical andare adapted to :fitsegmentally in the registering recesses 35 :in the two lates 32-and 33=above mentioned, andas is 0 early shown in Figs. 6

and 7. These sustaining arms 37 are held in adjusted position inavery simple manner,

namely: The lower endof the rod 30 which extends below the lower end of the tubular sleeve'25 is provided with a threaded surface 38, and the threaded surface 38 of the said rod 30-receives a nut 39Iand the said nut is preferably provided witha handle 40 so that by loosening the nut 39 the sustaining arms 37 can be carried to any desired position, and when in adjusted position can be fixedl held by tightening up the nut 39 so that ltwill have bearing against the -lower end of the tubular sleeve 25, since :in the latter position of the nut 39 the head 31 of the rodi30 and the head 29 of the tubular sleeve25will be drawn together andwill clamp between them the plates 32 and '33, fixing said plates :firmly upon the foot or shank sections36 of the sustaining arms 37.

' Both constructions described are very simle in their character and are well adapted for the purpose intended, and in both constructions the sustaining arms can be operated in the same manner and the samerresults can be obtained, and it may be here remarked that either the ca 1 6 shown in Fig. 3, or the cap 18 shown in fig. 4 may be applied to the upper ends of the sustaining arms 37.

The preferred mountingv of the holder is shown in Fig. 8, wherein there is practically a universal adjustment of the holder, enabling the hat to be expeditiously a'ndconveniently brought into any position that may be required to render each and every part inside and outside readily and conveniently accessi- To thatend the standard20 is adjustably held by a set screw 40 in a member 41 ofa-clamp A, having a second member42 that is held to turn and slide, the horizontal member43 of a bracket-arm Bibeing held on said member by a setscrewor its equivalent (not shown), and the said bracket-arm, in addition to the member 43, consists of a second downwardly-extending member 44, straight at its lower portion and havingan outward bend where it connects with the member 43. The lower end of the bracketarm B is mounted to turn and have vertical movement in the socket member 45 ofa clamp C, held on a table C or other support by a clamping screw 46, and a set screw 47 serves to hold the bracket-arm in adjustable position. A collar 48 on the member 44 can be set to limit the vertical downward adjustment of said arm, the collar being provided with a set screw 49.

We desire it to be understood that the form of base'or support shown in Figs. 1 and 5, is purely conventional, and that the base or support shown in Fig. 8 is that which is employed in connection with the body of the device, wherebyto impart thereto auniversal adjustment.

Having thus described our invention, we claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent,

1. A hat holder, comprising a support, a head on the support, a plurality of sustaining arms pivoted to the head, said arms being curved and being arranged with the arch of the curve outward, whereby to permit said arms to take a crossed position with respect to each other for engaging the inner surface of a hat or a separated position to engage the outer surface of the hat and means for fixing the arms with respect to the head.

2. A hat holder comprising a support, a head on the support, a plurality of sustaining arms pivoted to the head, said arms being curved and being arranged with the arch of the curve outward, whereby to permit said arms to take a crossed position with respect to each other for engaging the inner surface of the hat, or a separated position to engage the outer surface of the hat.

In testimony whereof we have signed our names to this specification in the presence of subscribing witnesses.

MINNIE E. CROUSE. JQ EDWARDS ROBERTS.

Witnesses to the signature of Minnie E.

Grouse:

GEORGE LYALL, CARRIE E, LYALL.

Witnesses to the signature of J. Edwards Roberts:

Tnos. A. BYRNE, J L. CUMMINGS. 

